Don't mess with the term "SOA"http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mpowell/archive/2004/08/24/219828.aspxRichard Turner warns us about the danger of calling everything SOA . We ran into this same sort of problem with Web Services. People were calling their HTML Web sites a Web Service. That is why Microsoft went the route of referring specifically to XMLen-USTelligent Evolution Platform Developer Build (Build: 5.6.50428.7875)re: Don't mess with the term "SOA"http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mpowell/archive/2004/08/24/219828.aspx#219878Wed, 25 Aug 2004 00:39:00 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:219878Jerry PiskRemember how Microsoft used to call everything .Net? Even things that had absolutely nothing to do with it? Well, today's buzzword is SOA. And as you can see, people never learn.<div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=219878" width="1" height="1">re: Don't mess with the term "SOA"http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mpowell/archive/2004/08/24/219828.aspx#219836Tue, 24 Aug 2004 23:40:00 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:219836RajaatEverytime I read about &quot;SOA&quot; I can't help laughing. In The Netherlands SOA is an abbreviation of &quot;Sexueel Overdraagbare Aandoening&quot;, the equivalent of the english STD.<div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=219836" width="1" height="1">